My Bloody Valentine to Perform At, Curate All Tomorrow's Parties Festival

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My Bloody Valentine will make their long-awaited return to the U.S. stage at the New York version of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, to be held in Monticello, NY, on September 19-21. MBV will also curate the fest. So far, frontman Kevin Shields has recruited four artists to perform classic records in their entirety, with Tortoise's Millions Now Living Will Never Die, Built to Spill's Perfect From Now On, Thurston Moore's solo Psychic Hearts and the Meat Puppets' II getting the full album treatment. Other MBV-approved bands performing are Shellac, Autolux, Mogwai and more. The ATP show would mark MBV's U.S. concert since July 1992. The band will also reportedly add six to eight more shows. Tickets for the event at the not-exactly-mammoth Kutshers Country Club in Monticello go on sale Friday at ATPFestival.com.

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“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Fishbone | 1985

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.

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